Location: On the drillfield, adjacent to the Campbell/Hutcheson
crosswalk; GPS: 37.226232, -80.422736

Size:

DBH 24 inches

Crown Spread 40 feet

Height
55 feet

Description: Eastern hemlock is a large
and long-lived conifer of cool eastern climates. Extremely tolerant
of shade, hemlock can grow and reproduce under a forest canopy. It
offers
valuable
shade
and shelter to wildlife, and it often planted ornamentally
due
to its
versatility
and beauty. The future of eastern hemlock as an ornamental and in the
wild is in question due to the spread of the hemlock woolly adelgid,
an accidentally
introduced
sap-feeding
insect. This impact can be seen locally - many of our hemlocks have
already fallen victim to the adelgid. Look for dead stands of hemlock
at the Cascades or around Mountain Lake.